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How To Look For A New Major Donor
What factors make a great major gift prospect?
Watch my latest video that discusses where to look for your next major donor and what you should be looking for in a major donor.
How To Find New Donors
Donating money during the pandemic was a way for people to feel like they were doing something in a world where no one felt safe, in control or hopeful.
New donors were streaming in.
Three years later, is that still the case?
How Can a Donor Show Love?
Do capital campaigns have to be about “capital” aka a building? NO.
Do capital campaigns need to be about a new initiative? NO.
Can a nonprofit organization launch multiple capital campaigns in the same decade? MAYBE.
So what are capital campaigns about?
Who Are Your “Just Right” Donors?
Let’s take a moment to consider this special group of donors.
The core of your nonprofit - your mid-level donors - who are often your most committed donors. Your rockstars. Your “I wish I could do more” donors. Your future transformational major donors and definitely would consider leaving a legacy gift to your nonprofit donors. Your “this is where I’m starting and I’m interested in learning more about what you do and then maybe I’ll increase if I’m properly stewarded” donors.
What makes them so special?
When You’re The Only One In The Office…
No one tells you when you start in a fundraising role that it can be really lonely.
That you can feel like you have the weight of the world (or the weight of your nonprofit - which sometimes feels bigger!) on your shoulders.
Can you relate?
What To Do When You Do Not Know How to Answer A Donor Question
When you think about making an ask to a donor, what makes you nervous?
Watch my latest video to learn more.
The Awkward Silence
Can we take a moment to consider that awkward silence, that pregnant pause, that uncomfortable quiet when it comes to fundraising?
When you are asking someone to donate to your organization, there is one key thing that needs to happen – you have to ask.
And then you have to wait for them to answer.
What’s So Scary About Planned Giving?
It’s the month of spooky, scary, and strange.
Do you find planned giving to be spooky, scary, or strange?
Let’s make it less about being scary and more about helping the donor leave a lasting legacy.
So, Your Donation Page Sucks…
A donation page is one of the most frequented pages of a nonprofit’s website. A donation page should be a simple page. But simplicity is easier said than done. It requires careful consideration before constructing it.
What should be considered?
How To Have A Better Donor Meeting
Did you know that you can actually fail a donor meeting before it even happens? No, I’m serious – you can really screw up before you even sit down.